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minus-squarethantik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-211 months agoYeah, but should you pronounce it Gee-en-yoo or Guh-no͞o? Huh? That REALLY tells me where your allegiances lay.
minus-squareSheDiceToday@eslemmy.eslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoYou mean you don’t pronounce it “GNU’s Not Unix” to all of your compatriots?
minus-squareWeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoI honestly didn’t know people pronounced it any other way than gee-en-you. It’s in all caps, so I figured you said each letter. Now that I think more about it though, I don’t know why I assumed that. I don’t say AWOL as ay-doubleyou-oh-el. I don’t say SNAFU as es-en-ay-ef-you. I’m just going to call it the OS for yaks from now on and never think about it again.
minus-squareMurdoc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoLike much of my early language skills, I learned it from Sesame Street: “Remember: No g-news is good g-news with Gary Gnu!” 😛
Yeah, but should you pronounce it Gee-en-yoo or Guh-no͞o? Huh? That REALLY tells me where your allegiances lay.
Ñu
Nü
Nee!
We demand a shrubbery!
Ño.
I pronounce it GNU
You mean you don’t pronounce it “GNU’s Not Unix” to all of your compatriots?
I honestly didn’t know people pronounced it any other way than gee-en-you. It’s in all caps, so I figured you said each letter.
Now that I think more about it though, I don’t know why I assumed that. I don’t say AWOL as ay-doubleyou-oh-el. I don’t say SNAFU as es-en-ay-ef-you.
I’m just going to call it the OS for yaks from now on and never think about it again.
Like much of my early language skills, I learned it from Sesame Street:
“Remember: No g-news is good g-news with Gary Gnu!” 😛